US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 20 for "Cable-equipped connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,379, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cable-equipped connector" was invented by Yusuke Kojima (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuaki Hamada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable-equipped connector is provided with a cable including wires, a sheath, a sleeve and a braided wire having a folded portion, a connector housing connected to the wires, and a shield member including a covering portion for covering the connector housing, a barrel portion to be crimped to an end part of the cable wher...